On June 26, the Kremlin propaganda media outlets (Новости Первого канала, tass.ru, iz.ru, rbc.ru)  published a story, based on Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, about an agreement reached between the Kyiv authorities and UNESCO. According to the information, Kyiv and UNESCO agreed on the removal of Christian valuables from the territory of Kyiv Pechersk Lavra for...

Since June 22, after President of Georgia Salome Zourabichvili pardoned Nika Gvaramia, the founder and former Director General of the private TV company Mtavari Arkhi, a number of manipulated photos have been circulating on social networks to discredit Zourabichvili. On 23-25 June, a photo of a woman who looks like Zourabichvili was posted on the...

On June 1,  2023, the website of the news agency “Tbilisi 24” published an article which features an alleged statement of Kelly Degnan, the United States ambassador to Georgia. According to the article, Degnan states that she is shocked to see the monument of the famous Russian poet Alexander Pushkin at Freedom Square in Tbilisi...

Since May 18, 2023, Georgian- (1,2,3,4,5,6) and Russian-language (1,2,3) Facebook accounts have been disseminating the claim that Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, gifted the Pope an icon of the Virgin Mary, where the typical spot of baby Jesus is blacked out. Some of the posts claimed that, according to the Italian press, the painting is a...

Since May 5, 2023, Georgian- (1,2,3,4,5,6) and Russian-language (1,2) Facebook accounts have been distributing several photos showing a group of children and horned creatures reading books to children. In some of the photos, the children are wearing horns; in one of the photos, they are wearing black clothes and sitting in a circle, which features...

For a number of years now, the Kremlin media has been voicing and amplifying the disinformation about dangerous experiments being conducted in the Lugar Laboratory in Georgia. On February 24, Tristan Tsitelashvili, a past convict for military treason, spoke on this topic to the Russian propaganda media – Izvestiya, claiming that the military personnel sent...

According to the decision of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, on March 29, 2023, the agreement on the free use of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate was terminated based on the conclusions of the interdepartmental working group. Monks and priests of Kyiv-Pechersk were given...

During May 2-4th, both Russian (1, 2, 3) and Georgian (1, 2, 3, 4) social media users have been disseminating the information about the alleged capture of the Canadian General, Trevor Cadieu while fleeing from the Azovstal factory in Mariupol. According to sources, the General headed the bio laboratory in Ukraine, where he worked with...

On October 20th, 2021, Facebook user Levan Tavidashvili published a quote from Zbigniew Brzezinski, a diplomat and the former adviser to the US President. The quote alleged that crises, wars, famines, epidemics would not end until the establishment of new world order. In the quote, Brzezinski also says that despite the people’s will, the “unified world order”...

On March 1, Facebook user Lu Ka published a photo, depicting one of the pages of a history textbook with the following words underlined: “Georgian alphabet was invented by a famous Armenian public figure, Mesrop Mashtots.” The photo is accompanied by the author’s comment: “SOS!!! SOS!!! SOS!!! Who includes in textbooks such absurd and false...